From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 10:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311FF37B712 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA51897; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A5A018E.A6FF34DA@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:06:06 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Not so much a question ... References: <000501c07930$a90bfc60$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: > While I realize it's completely logical .. the process by which this all > took place .. I have to ask honestly how many of us would have sifted > through the Makefile to look for dependancies ... and then through those > Makefile's for their dependancies ... and so on? One simple way to at least get an idea of what you're facing is to type 'make clean' in the directory of the port you want to install. Meanwhile, one of the byproducts of us giving you the whole package, source and everything is that when people come to us and say, "I didn't know it would do that!" we don't have a lot of sympathy. :) Good luck, Doug -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message